Robert Greene
- Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument
Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: The resentment and ill-will you stir up are stronger and last longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.
Amir Raz & Michael Lifshitz
- Hypnosis and Meditation
Hypnosis and meditation are blurry categories with diverging narratives. Rather than neatly delineating separate silos, these labels encompass a range of techniques and rituals emanating from diverse cultures, geographies, and world views.
Robert Greene
- Get Others To Do The Work For You
Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a god-like aura of efficiency and speed. In the end, your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.
Robert Greene
- Court Attention At All Costs
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all costs. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses. Burning more brightly than those around you is a skill that no one is born with. You must attach your name and reputation to a quality, an image, that sets you apart from other people.
Robert Greene
- Always Say Less Than Necessary
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinx-like. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
Devin Terhune
- Hypnosis and top-down regulation of consciousness
A remarkable feature of the human brain is its ability to translate internal mental representations into perceptual states. One of the most striking instances of such top-down regulation is the phenomenon of hypnosis, in which verbal suggestions are capable of creating pronounced changes in the contents of consciousness. Following specific suggestions, responsive individuals are able to experience alterations in a diverse array of psychological functions and thus hypnotic suggestion has consider.
Robert Greene
- Never outshine the master
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school, and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
Kelly Wilson
- Mindfulness for Two
Values... are defined as freely chosen, verbally constructed consequences of ongoing, dynamic, evolving patterns of activity, which establish predominant reinforcers for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valued behavioural pattern itself.
Kathryn Mannix
- With The End In Mind
There are only two days with fewer than twenty-four hours in each lifetime, sitting like bookends astride our lives: one is celebrated every year, yet it is the other that makes us see living as precious.
Jennifer C. Plumb
- In Search of Meaning
Despite the importance of his own personal values in guiding his work, it may be argued that Skinner failed to produce an adequate account of values themselves. Nevertheless, a modern theoretically-derived behavioral approach to values does currently exist, and there is promising empirical support for its application to the alleviation of human suffering and the development of meaningful life patterns.
